While Portugal has had great tourism numbers in recent years, it’s lost favor with one segment of the business: Vultures are passing up opportunities for a stay on the sunny Algarve or beautiful rural towns.
It appears the slump in vulture tourism may be due to complaints about the food: There’s not enough of it since Portugal passed a law requiring rapid burial or cremation of livestock dying of natural causes.
A three-year study by the Doñana Biological Station of two species of vultures has found that they now almost never venture into Portugal, and are venturing farther afield in search of better pickings.
